Colourq #145; Freshly Made Sketches #43

A Super Saturday Hello,

I'm sorry if yesterday you missed your "daily dose of vitamin D" as one follower called me.  I first had trouble with the spitter at my cable connection, the nice young man said.  Then he added that the juice from the street to the house was low so he put a call in for that.  This morning they shut everything down while the intertube was hooked up to an IV for a long infusion of more juice.  Hoo Ray.

While my system was up interspittingly, rather than doing a post of my own, I decided to spend the time visiting other blogs and leaving comments.  I didn't get a chance to do as much of that as I had hoped.  It takes a lot of time, but I figure if I like to receive visits and comments, then it's only fair that I visit and leave comments.  Right?  Over time, friendships are being made and styles are becoming known.  It can be tough, however, to "express" properly with a written comment where there is no infection or eye twinkle to accompany a remark.  Infection?  No.  Infliction?  That's a whole different post.  Inflection?  Inspection. Stop it.

Soooo, I have seen a lot of cards in Cyber City that use Memory Box dies and I found them to be quite appealing.  I ordered a few (dozen) and they came yesterday.  Let's get started.

I am playing in this week's ColourQ challenge.  The colors are summery sweet lemonade, deep yellow mustard, roll-around-on-the-grass-eating-fresh-baked-cookies colors:

I am also playing in this week's Freshly Made Sketches challenge.  It is a great sketch by Tui Nathan:

Sketch and colors in hand, along with new Memory Box dies, I did this:

Just FYI, those eyeballs are shiny bling and not little globs of black ink.

So by now you know I like the "less is more" style of card designing, also known as CAS (clean and simple).  I do like texture and I do like simple layers such as what's around the main white cardstock.  But adding poofed out grass like that is something I am trying to feel easy with.  I think, in addition to being OCD with my neatness and organization, I'm also practical to a fault.  I like to make cards with the intent of mailing them.  In regular envelopes with one stamp. 

But with the blog and the challenges, I am becoming more adventurous and making cards just for the sake of Art.  Art lives down the street three doors.  He's more elderly than me, and way more sweeter.  He beams from one side of his mouth to the other when I come bearing cards too fluffy and too fat for mailing in regular envelopes with one stamp.  He holds them in his hands like a lemon meringue pie.  I beam back.

Just for him, I took my card to a new, but parallel, universe:

Which do you like better?

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I was going to show you the tomato plants and assorted gardening stuff, but I stopped the presses for a second to go put the clothes in the dryer and I'm sharing what I found instead.

I have a very cute pair of white shorts.  Very white.  With cute little ebroidered back pockets.  Like this:

I pulled them out of the wash and was horrified to find this:

The color is quite a lot brighter IRL.  I couldn't imagine what caused it, because I was only washing whites.  I peeked in the pocket and found the culprit:

A tiny little piece of lime green tissue paper from a sweet little gift a sweet little friend presented to me at a birthday lunch last week.  I checked the pockets for nose tissues, but I entirely missed this little piece of gift tissue.  [Insert naughty word.]  Do they still make Ritz for dying articles in the washing machine, or just crackers?

You've been here long enough today.  Scoot.  We'll look around the yard tomorrow.

Enjoy!   As always, thank you for stopping by to visit.   Special thanks to you if you take the time to join as a follower or leave a comment!

Paper:  SU white, daffodil delight,

  chocolate chip, more mustard,

  and pear pizzaz

Stamp:  Mostly Animals, "Geri" 397-S5

Ink:  SU more mustard

Cuttlebug emblossing folder

Memory Box dies, grass and tree